Clowe has it in for Ballard now, and tries to crush him with a forechecking hit.

Volpatti just levels Demers in the San Jose zone! Clean check, Mr. Shanahan.

Alberts with a nice block on a cross ice pass on the Sharks powerplay, but San Jose regains possession, and Parent runs at Thornton behind the net who makes him look silly, passing out front to a now uncovered Pavelski, who buries it.

Now McGinn goes after Ballard and challenges him to a fight! That's what the NHL is turning into, eh - have to fight after you deliver a clean check? Anyway, Ballard wrestles the bigger McGinn to the ice, never throwing a punch.

Southern_Canuck wrote:Now McGinn goes after Ballard and challenges him to a fight! That's what the NHL is turning into, eh - have to fight after you deliver a clean check? Anyway, Ballard wrestles the bigger McGinn to the ice, never throwing a punch.

S_C

I'll NEVER understand why any hockey fan is confused by a fight after a cleanish hit. First off, the players on the ice may not have seen the replay 5 times. But more importantly, this has been happening FOREVER! Certainly nobody believes every fight in the 70s was a hero vs villain event. I realize that old people like to remember the 'good old days' as some sort of altrustic, romantic era, but they really weren't.